Publisher: Hyperion Avenue Books,  June 25, 2024

Format: ebook

Pages: 320

Rating: 4.5/5 stars

Summary (From Goodreads):

She has a dream. He has a plan. Together they’ll take a leap of faith.

Ren has never held an iPhone, googled the answer to a question, or followed a crush on social media. What she has done: Read a book or two, or three (okay, hundreds). Taught herself to paint. Built a working wind power system from scratch. But for all the books she’s read, Ren has never found one that’s taught a woman raised on a homestead and off the grid for most of her twenty-two years how to live in the real world. So when she finally achieves her lifelong dream of attending Corona College, it feels like her life is finally beginning.

Fitz has the rest of his life mapped out: Graduate from Corona at the top of his class, get his criminal record wiped clean, and pass himself off as the rich, handsome player everyone thinks he is. He’s a few short months from checking off step one of his plans when Ren Gylden, with her cascading blonde hair and encyclopedic brain, crashes into his life, and for the first time Fitz’s plan is in jeopardy.

But a simple assignment in their immunology seminar changes the course of both their lives, and suddenly they’re thrown out of the frying pan and into the fire on a road trip that will lead them in the most unexpected directions. Out on the open road, the world somehow shifts, and the unlikely pair realize that, maybe, the key to the dreams they’ve both been chasing have been sitting next to them the whole time.

My Review:

Thank you Hyperion Avenue Books for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: romantic dramas/forced proximity
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Ren has never gone to school or left her homestead, but she convinces her parents to finally let her go to college. There, she is exposed to a lot of the world that she didn’t realize she was missing. She also meets Fitz, who is working hard to chase away some past demons. An unlikely situation pairs the two together on a road trip where they learn about not only each other, but themselves as well.
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I was a little unsure about this one at the beginning, but I ended up loving it. It was messy and dramatic, and I don’t think I was expecting the thriller turn near the end, but I was sucked into it and couldn’t stop reading. I really loved Fitz and thought he was cute and kind.
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Overall, an engaging book and I am glad I read it!